| 单词 | to lap up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lap up c. to lap up: (figurative) to receive (praise, news, etc.) eagerly. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > receive [verb (transitive)] > receive eagerly to lap up1890 1890 A. James Diary 20 May (1964) 119 Where do you suppose they have discovered Self-Sacrifice now? In the heroic bosom of Stanley! who on his own showing laps up the agréments of African travel as I do my afternoon tea. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt xxx. 359 I was simply astonished, the way those women lapped it up! 1930 D. H. Lawrence A Propos Lady Chatterley's Lover 18 People wallow in emotion: counterfeit emotion. They lap it up: they live in it and on it. 1931 G. Atherton Sophisticates ii. xix. 210 ‘Polly, of all women, to start such a thing!’ muttered Emerey. ‘Or Toddles, for that matter. I've found out it was she who fed Polly with the idea of doing something new and strange. Of course she lapped it up.’ 1958 Listener 20 Nov. 815/1 The Indian Embassy in Bonn will lap up information about Eastern Germany. 1972 Times 20 Apr. 25/1 Americans have lapped the book up, already getting through Dell's first order of 100,000. < as lemmas |
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